In The Club

A mystery that no one can explain is just how Olivia Nuzzi became a member of the elite club of "journalists" who can only fail upwards, who seemingly exist outside any normal rules of journalism, and who one expects to recover from even this scandal.

Most journalists - especially women, *especially* women of color - are one bad tweet away from working in low level retail.

And "bad tweet" can be objecting a bit too unobjectively to, say, racism, or predatory bosses.

"New York magazine on Thursday said its Washington correspondent, Olivia Nuzzi, is on leave after learning the star journalist had allegedly engaged in a romantic relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.," @OliverDarcy reports for STATUS https://t.co/Cu6z7l123K

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) September 20, 2024

When you're a star they let you do it, but why do her peers call her a star?